Claire Tomalin Quotes

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

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• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • America
  • Creative
  • Solitude

• The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Government
  • Goal
  • Creating

• I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Mind
  • Real
  • American

• The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • High
  • Daily
  • Paper

• When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Work
  • Opinion
  • Start

• Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • You
  • Doing
  • Bullying

• I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Want
  • Meaningful
  • Content

• No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Say
  • Coach
  • Excuses

• A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

  

  Saadi
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Marriage

• When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Want
  • You
  • Care

• Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Society
  • Legacy
  • Greatest

• Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Leaving

• One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Deep
  • Sense
  • Outsider

• It is impossible to say just what I mean!But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:Would it have been worth while If one, settling aPillow or throwing off a shawl,And turning toward the window, should say:'That is not it at all,That is not what I meant, at all.'

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Magic

• The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Perfect

• Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.

  

  Warren Farrell

• It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Small

• Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

  

  Lisa Guerrero
  • People
  • Good

• I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• I was born in Canada, and then my dad played pro soccer in England and then also on an island off the coast of Portugal. So we lived there for, like, 10 years. And then we moved to Minnesota. So I feel like I've experienced a lot of different cultures, and I'm still figuring out who I am.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Different
  • Dad
  • Soccer

• I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

  

  Claire Tomalin